Gray Panthers–Now in Paperback
08/09/2011
Gray Panthers Roger Sanjek 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4137-2 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2191-6 | $26.50 |… READ MORE
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A Penn Press Podcast Interview with The Disaster Experts Author Scott Gabriel Knowles
08/08/2011
The tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks is fast approaching. In the August podcast, historian Scott Gabriel Knowles, author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, reflects… READ MORE
Devil in the Holy Water–Now in Paperback
08/08/2011
The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon Robert Darnton 552 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 47 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Lustration and Transitional Justice–Now Available
08/08/2011
Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland Roman David 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth Sep 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4331-4… READ MORE
The Name That Zoot Contest Winners
08/08/2011
Congratulations to all of the winners of the Name That Zoot contest: Laura Bissey of New Jersey, Michele Kim of South Dakota, Pinchus Roth of New York, and the grand… READ MORE
Name that Zoot Contest Extended to Friday
08/03/2011
Penn Press is doing you solid. We're extending the deadline for this week's Name that Zoot contest to Friday, August 5 at 12:00 noon eastern time. This week's winner will… READ MORE
Lucretia Mott was no Mild Mannered Quaker
08/03/2011
Today the Religion in American History blog posted an essay by Carol Faulkner, author of Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. In "Gender and the American… READ MORE
The Research Triangle–Now Available
08/03/2011
The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence William M. Rohe 240 pages | 5 1/2 x 9 | 38 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4343-7 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
Name that Zoot Contest: The Fourth and Final Week!
07/27/2011
The answer to last week’s question is “zazous.” Before and during World War II, zoot suit wearing jazz lovers in France were known as les zazous. Jusqu’ici sur terre un… READ MORE
Smack–Now Available in Paperback
07/26/2011
Smack: Heroin and the American City Eric C. Schneider 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4116-7 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2011 |… READ MORE
